[The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Moonstone CHAPTER XI 10/53
She went straight to Miss Rachel's bedroom, and insisted on being admitted.
Miss Rachel let her in. The alarm, running through the house like fire, caught the two gentlemen next. Mr.Godfrey was the first to come out of his room.
All he did when he heard what had happened was to hold up his hands in a state of bewilderment, which didn't say much for his natural strength of mind. Mr.Franklin, whose clear head I had confidently counted on to advise us, seemed to be as helpless as his cousin when he heard the news in his turn.
For a wonder, he had had a good night's rest at last; and the unaccustomed luxury of sleep had, as he said himself, apparently stupefied him.
However, when he had swallowed his cup of coffee--which he always took, on the foreign plan, some hours before he ate any breakfast--his brains brightened; the clear-headed side of him turned up, and he took the matter in hand, resolutely and cleverly, much as follows: He first sent for the servants, and told them to leave all the lower doors and windows (with the exception of the front door, which I had opened) exactly as they had been left when we locked up over night.
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